“Singing is something mystical and spiritual, it is like healing, and the music I’m committed to allows me to connect with this purpose. This is a music for the soul”.

Nathalie Peña-Comas

ABOUT

Latin Grammy-Nominee rising star soprano and actress Nathalie Peña-Comas was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

She has made appearances in Austria, Belarus, Colombia, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, England, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United States, and the Vatican City.

She performed several operatic roles in Europe and the Dominican Republic including Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Lucia in the tango opera Mateo, Queen of trolls in The two Fiddlers, Gabi in Agleia Federweiss, Musetta in La Bohème, Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro, Micaëla in Carmen, Violetta in La Traviata and most recent Donna Anna in Don Giovanni.

She made her acting debut at the Los Angeles Theater Center in the role of Nightingale in the world premiere of the theater play "Ghost Waltz".

Nathalie has sung a. o. at Emilia Romagna Festival, Montecatini Opera Festival and Taranto Opera Festival (Italy), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival), Vienna Opera Summer in Belvedere, Sommerfestival Kittsee (Burgenland), and IMAGO Sloveniae International Festival (Slovenia); in venues such as prestigious Golden Hall of Musikverein and the Konzerthaus Vienna; Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome; the Basilica Papale Santa Maria Maggiore (Vatican City); the Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Russia); Gran Teatro Nacional (Peru); Palacio de Bellas Artes and Teatro Nacional Eduardo Brito in the Dominican Republic.

She has performed, a. o. with the Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Concert – Verein Orchestra, the Strauss Festival Orchestra, the State the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Belarus, Philharmonic Orchestra of Târgu Mures, National Symphony Orchestras of Peru and the Dominican Republic; a. o. with Maestros Eugene Kohn, Valery Polyansky, Ernst Kovacic, Joji Hattori, Ola Rudner, Ferenc Gábor, Harald Krumpöck, Francisco Navarro Lara, José Antonio Molina and many others, and alongside Gregory Kunde, KS Ramón Vargas, Stephen Costello, Morris Robinson, Tuomas Katajala, Andrea Bocelli and pop artists Johnny Ventura, Danny Rivera, Plácido Domingo Jr., and many others.

Some of her concerts have been live streamed on Rai 3 (Italy), the Belarusian Broadcasting Company, the Slovenian National Radio, and Dominican National Television and Radio Corporation.

With the Ensemble Spirituosi, a musical sextet dedicated to academic and folk music of Latin America, Nathalie has toured through Austria, Dominican Rep., England, Italy, and Spain. Spirituosi’s first Album “Souvenir Latino” won 3 Golden Medals at Global Music Awards in Los Angeles and has been in the play-list of BBC 3 Radio in London. Ensemble Spirituosi was also awarded the Soberano Prize in “Best Classical Concert of 2015” (Dom. Rep.).

She won the 1st Prize at the Ebe Stignani International Opera Competition 2022, the 2nd Prize at the Montecatini Opera Festival Singing Competition 2022, and has been awarded several prizes for “Classical Singer of the Year” at Soberano Awards (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022 - Dom. Rep.). She was also finalist at the 14th Osaka International Music Competition (2013) and won the special prize for the “Most Promising Soprano” and for the ''Best Interpretation of a Polish Composition'' at the 14th Ada Sari International Competition of Vocal Art (2011).

She graduated from University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna under the guidance of Helena Lazarska and Annamaria Rott (voice) and Manfred Wagner-Artzt (piano), where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Voice and Piano Pedagogy. She attended Masterclasses with: Gregory Kunde, Mariella Devia, Michael Recchiuti and Kamal Khan. Since 2018 she works with renown Romanian Maestra Irina Gavrilovici.

Since 2019 Nathalie serves as Cultural Ambassador for the Dominican Republic.

R E P E R T O I R E

OPERA

G. BIZET MICAËLA Carmen

P. M. DAVIS QUEEN OF TROLLS The two fiddlers

E. HUMPERDINCK GRETEL Hänsel und Gretel

G. KÜHR GABI Agleia Federweiss

W. A. MOZART ZERLINA Don Giovanni
DONNA ANNA Don Giovanni

PAMINA Die Zauberflöte
CONTESSA Le nozze di Figaro

M. PALMERI LUCIA Mateo

G. PUCCINI MIMÌ* La Bohème

MUSETTE La Bohème

LIÙ* Turandot

FLORIA TOSCA* Tosca

CIO-CIO-SAN* Madama Butterfly

G. VERDI VIOLETTA VALÉRY La Traviata

AIDA* Aida

DESDEMONA* Otello

*Roles in repertoire; arias and ensembles performed on stage (in concerts).

ORATORIO/ CONCERT/ SOPRANO-PARTS/ ART SONGS/LIEDER

J. S. BACH Magnificat BWV 243

L. V. BEETHOVEN Messe in C-DUR op. 86

Chorfantasie op. 80

IX Symphonie op. 125 d-moll

J. BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem op. 458
G. FAURÉ Requiem op.48

M. HAYDN Missa in honorem Sanctae Ursulae

(Chiemsee-Messe), MH 546

F. J. HAYDN Missa brevis in F Hob. XXII:1

Missa brevis in B Hob. XXII:7

G. MAHLER Symphonie no. 2 in c-moll

F. MOMPOU Combat del somni

X. MONTSALVATGE Cinco canciones negras

W. A. MOZART Exsultate, jubilate KV 165

Konzertarie "Voi avete un cor fedele” KV 217

Missa brevis in F KV 192
Missa in C "Spatzenmesse” KV 220
Missa brevis in B KV 275
Missa in C "Krönungsmesse” KV 317

Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, KV 339

Requiem KV 626

T. NICOLAU Cancionero de ausencias

F. OBRADORS Various songs (Lieder)

C. ORFF Carmina Burana

G. B. PERGOLESI Stabat Mater in f-moll

J. B. PLAZA Siete canciones venezolanas

J. RODRIGO Doce canciones españolas

G. ROSSINI Stabat Mater
F. SCHUBERT G-Dur Messe D 167

Ausgewählte Lieder

F. SOR Various songs (Lieder)

R. SCHUMANN Missa in c-moll op. 147

H. SCHÜTZ Musikalische Exequien SWV 279–281 (op. 7)

R. STRAUSS Vier letzte Lieder

J. TURINA Poema en Forma de Canciones op.19

Saeta en Forma de Salve op.60

G. VERDI Messa da Requiem
H. VILLA-LOBOS Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5/Aria Cantilena

A. VIVALDI Gloria in D RV 589